Mothers of Invention Concerts and Interviews

Frank Zappa, from the Mojave Desert town of Lancaster, California, had a fondness for raw blues, R & B and doo-wop. Zappa moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and linked up with a five-piece band called the Soul Giants, which later became the Mothers of Invention. Under Zappa's direction, the Mothers progressed from standard bar-band fare to compositions that combined modern classical music, jazz, R & B and rock. Zappa eventually positioned himself with freaks (genuinely weird and creative people) against hippies (whom he considered sheep) and became strongly anti-drug. He died of cancer in 1993....more